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Adjective red has 4 senses

red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet - having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Antonym: achromatic (indirect, via chromatic)
crimson, red, violent - characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode
Antonym: bloodless (indirect, via bloody)
crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed - (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"
Antonyms: uncolored, uncoloured (indirect, via colored)
red - red with or characterized by blood; "waving our red weapons o'er our heads"- Shakespeare; "The Red Badge of Courage"; "the red rules of tooth and claw"- P.B.Sears
Antonym: bloodless (indirect, via bloody)

Noun red has 4 senses

red, redness - the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
--₁ is a kind of chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
--₁ has particulars:
chrome red; Turkey red, alizarine red; cardinal, carmine; crimson, ruby, deep red; dark red; purplish red; cerise, cherry, cherry red; scarlet, vermilion, orange red
Red, Red River - a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
--₂ is a kind of river
--₂ is a part of
Texas, Lone-Star State, TX; Oklahoma, Sooner State, OK; Louisiana, Pelican State, LA
Bolshevik, Marxist, pinko, red, bolshie - emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
--₃ is a kind of radical
loss, red ink, red - the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year"
--₄ is a kind of sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money
--₄ has particulars: paper loss; squeeze